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Gauging interest

As most of you now by now i do some Custom stuff, ive been working on some frame and body ideas but have been concentrating on the body more.
Anyway this is still in progress but what do you guys think? as i wil put this into production if there's enough interest.
The final version will have eye covers and hidden detents.
it still needs some work but here it is:

Am I mistaken, or is this a unibody? I'll admit, it does look nice. Unfortunately I'm not currently in the market for a new setup, but it is one of the better designs that I have seen. I think demand will obviously depend on price.

I would not do eye covers unless they are set into the body though. This was the main reason, other than price, that few did the old style eye mod. Most say they dont like the way the eye covers disrupt the lines of the body. But there are other options now. I still think internal eyes would work even with an integrated design like this. The only issue is the tooling needed to do the internal eyes is very delicate.

My personal opinion is that it is one of the better looking designs of the ones out there. If the price on this one was in the same ballpark as most other high end custom bodies, I would probably buy this one. I am looking for a suitable body/rail for a (long term) Egomag project anyway.

Regarding eyes, I would very much prefer either hidden internal eyes, or no eye milling at all. Hidden detents is a very nice touch, which would be kind of ruined with visible eye covers.

I would not do eye covers unless they are set into the body though. This was the main reason, other than price, that few did the old style eye mod. Most say they dont like the way the eye covers disrupt the lines of the body. But there are other options now. I still think internal eyes would work even with an integrated design like this. The only issue is the tooling needed to do the internal eyes is very delicate.

Eye covers would be flush like on a DM7 for example, as for extra milling on a batch of 10-20 it wouldn't bump the price up by much at all

Looks beautiful - definitely one of the best looking bodies - reminds me of a Bob long to a degree. I guess we Mag owners are far less concerned about feed necks... all the early Blast had removable necks - I love the clamping on my Timmy for example. That said I never had an issue with the hopper/feedneck on my classic mags.
I would love to add one of these bodies to one of my mags, but the price for these custom bodies is always above my budget. I'm watching the thread for price tho...